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This is the URL that (while using FF 2.0.0.20) is reliably causing my java console to start: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-26/vacancies-abound-these-5-american-ghost-cities This may or may not be a complete list (as pertains to the URL in question) but these domains are blocked (because of hosts file entries): d5nxst8fruw4z.cloudfront.net c.statcounter.com www.statcounter.com ads.investingchannel.com pagead2.googlesyndication.com platform.twitter.com grllopa.com widgets.outbrain.com secure.quantserve.com edge.quantserve.com asset.pagefair.com So presumably nothing from those domains would be causing this java behavior (but I see that I'll be adding asset.pagefair.net). The following two domains are referenced in the URL, but it could be just as a clickable link: cartodb-libs.global.ssl.fastly.net adamkokenakes.cartodb.com I believe that it is the adamkokenakes material / graphic that I'm seeing in Opera that I'm not seeing in FF2. So if anyone can tell me what (in that URL) is triggering my java console to start, please do. It's very rare (or quite possibly has never happened) that I've seen such behavior on any zerohedge page before.

During browsing (not msfn) I noticed my java console started up, but there was no obvious java content on the page/site I was on. I looked at the java logfile and the last entry tells me the date/time that java started (is there somewhere else that tells me the name/location of the java package being run?). I believe I've found the reason (the page renders differently in Opera 12 vs FF2, hence I believe I'm seeing the java content in Opera that I'm not seeing in FF2). While searching for any new or modified files with the time-stamp that corresponds to java starting, I found these candidates: windows\Application Data\Avant Profiles\.default\temp\cookies\index.dat windows\Application Data\Avant Profiles\.default\temp\cache\Content.IE5\index.dat I tried to open the second index.dat file in wordpad, but was told it was in use. I copied it to another location where I was able to open it. I then tried to copy the first index.dat file, but got this: "your current security settings prohibit copying or moving files from this zone" I don't like the idea of not (at least) being able to copy a file that may be in use, especially when running win-98. I tried copying the entire cookies folder, but got the same message. I then tried copying the entire temp directory, and that *I was* able to do, and the cookies directory (and the file index.dat) came with it. What sort of control structure exists within win-98 that would have prevented me from copying that index.dat file (and how can it be deactivated)? A registry entry somewhere?

Following the archived link to Webfldrs-KB892211-ENU.exe (1759 kb), downloading and unpacking it gives webfldrs.msi (1915 kb). Unpacking the msi gives (among other things) the following 4 cab files, the contents of which are listed under each one: fp4a.cab fp4autl.dll.36E92838_E4EF_404F_BB9D_B225D45C7ACF fp4awec.dll.36E92838_E4EF_404F_BB9D_B225D45C7ACF fpext.msg.36E92838_E4EF_404F_BB9D_B225D45C7ACF msonsext.cab F6926_msonsext.dll.B1137AFB_11AE_488A_BA0E_E3DE1B3F1F42 fKey_nsextint.dll.B1137AFB_11AE_488A_BA0E_E3DE1B3F1F42 pkmws.cab F525_pkmws.dll.662E5E6B_7913_4DEE_84E0_F9A52DB890D1 Rosebud.cab F324_msdaipp.dll.E8D71C4B_62C9_4D1B_A02F_C916CAE50331 F346_msdapml.dll.E8D71C4B_62C9_4D1B_A02F_C916CAE50331 In addition to those cabs, there is also Icon.places.exe - no idea what that is (tried to start it, nothing happens). I believe the desired .dll files are all there (above) - just edit the file names to remove the junk and you've got the files, and a bonus file (nsextint.dll). All files have a date-stamp of 9/17/04. But still no Pkmres.dll.

I've checked my win-98se system and I have nothing matching pkmres*.*. I have all of the other files mentioned in the table except for Pkmws.dll, but only Fp4awec.dll matches the version in the table (all others are older versions). Pkmres.dll is said to be a component of "microsoft sharepoint portal server". It's not clear to me if Microsoft intended kb892211 to be applicable to windows 98. See also this (if it's relevant): http://www.office-forums.com/threads/workaround-install-problem-with-microsoft-frontpage-2000.2254423/

I had kex version 4.5.2015.9 installed on this win-98se system. I copied (not moved) all the files in the \windows\kernelex directory to a backup folder. I downloaded Release.11.7z and unpacked it into \windows\kernelex\Release.11 folder. I ran the update.pif in the Release.11 folder, the system rebooted, ran the bat file, asked me if I wanted to replace a few files (I said yes), and then rebooted. Upon restart, I got the message "Kernel32.dll performed an invalid page fault" shortly after the login window came up. Dismissing that, got a short cascade of other messages (other things trying to run, but didn't or couldn't). Bottom line, system not functional, no desktop. Reboot into dos. There appears to be 3 dll files that are newer than what I had before in the kernelex folder: kexbasen.dll kexbases.dll kernelex.dll After a little bit of trial and error, I find that replacing kexbasen.dll with the previous version brings back full system functionality. So I'm now running with kernelex 4.5.2015.11 except for kexbasen.dll which is version 4.5.2015.9. In this state, I can post this message, watch youtube videos using opera 12.02 and vlc 2.0.8 works fine (don't know if those constitute a good kernelex test or not...). No functional issues noted so far.

As it stands currently, does Retrozilla (v 1.1) perform any differently (general website compability) than FF 2.0.0.20 on win-98se? If Retrozilla development is continued, will it or could it attain performance capabilities that match or exceed those of Opera 12.02 on win-98se systems with Kex?

Northbridge: Intel® G965 Express Chipset Southbridge: Intel® ICH8 No AGP slots - PCI/PCIe only. Great! So we've got win-9x fully compatibly with 9xx/ICH8 have we? And a PCIe video card too! Tell me where I can download these 9xx/ICH8 win-9x chipset drivers...

Now what are you going to do about: - Video - USB - Network/Lan - Audio ?

> a never ending white loading screen when trying to access part of the in-game online store You might be able to disable access to the troublesome URL with an appropriately-crafted line in your HOSTS file. A more complex solution would be to get a web-server up and running on the computer just to serve up previously downloaded files from the original site server, and modify those files as necessary. Hosts file entries would allow internal re-direction to the local web server.

The board is rev 3.0 On a side note, what happens when you install XP (pro, sp3) on a system with a single core, and then you switch CPU's to a 2 (or more) core? Do you have to monkey with the HAL to get the system to get it to boot at all, let alone recognize (and use) the additional cores?

I have successfully installed XP on the system in question (GA-890FXA). The problem of constant re-booting when the system transitions from the "Text" phase into the VGA-GUI phase was solved by turning off the second CPU core in the bios. The CPU is a retail-box Sempron 145. Some motherboards have a "feature" to activate second cores on some AMD cpu's sold as single-core. This appeared to work fine on this board, but I guess this is one of those cases where one of the cores on this die was flawed, and hence what could have been an Athlon was turned into a Sempron. Funny thing though, Windows system information identifies the CPU as an Athlon 4450e, but task manager shows only 1 core.

> Set the thingy to stop on error (instead of rebooting). I suppose I do that by using a particular command-line argument? winnt /something? > I don't get the reason why you are using DOS at all In the very few times I've installed XP on a few computers that I use infrequently or are used by others that I have to manage, I install on a drive that has been pre-formatted as FAT32 and for convienence and speed has had the XP cd copied to it along with all necessary drivers. It only makes sense that the drive also be self-bootable (into DOS) in order to start the XP installation process and it therefor becomes dual-bootable (DOS/XP) after XP has been installed. > I have to guess that you are attempting ot use WINNT.EXE > to install, right? XP cd is copied to c:\xp-cd, and after booting into dos I change to c:\xp-cd\i386 and run winnt.exe to start the XP install. I think the very first thing I'm asked is to confirm the source directory of the install files (which is c:\xp-cd\i386). > in any case the first part of the install is not > "dos" it is "text mode" or "real mode" (before > the switch to "protected mode"). I'm aware of that, but I believe that even Microsoft calls it the "DOS" phase, so I thought I was just following convention. > How big in size is the disk drive? > How big in size is the FAT32 partition you created? I mentioned that in the first post. Hard drive is 320gb. It previously had windows multipoint 2010 server on it (meaning it had several NTFS partitions). I used fdisk121.exe to delete all partitions and create a single 30 gb FAT32 partition and set it to Active. I then slaved it to a win-98 system and ran Western Digital Data Life Guard (DLG) and set the cluster size to 4 gb and had DLG format the partition. The remainder of the drive (300 gb) remained unpartitioned / unformatted. > In any case, try (only to test) to install in "native" > mode, this way we can exclude issues with the hardware. I repeatedly tried to install with the bios set to "NATIVE IDE" mode (after trying AHCI mode) and still got continuous rebooting after "TEXT" phase of XP install was finished.

I'm trying to install XP-pro 32-bit on a system with Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard (AMD SB850 southbridge) and all attempts have resulted in the system continuously rebooting after the "DOS" portion of the installation process is finished. The hard drive is a 320 gb WD sata drive, formatted with a 30 gb FAT32 partition with 4kb cluster size and win98-DOS. The rest of the drive is unformatted / unpartitioned. XP-sp3 CD copied to its own directory on the drive. The drive is connected to either SATA-0 or SATA-1 port (can't tell which one) on the board (one of the 6 "blue" connectors). In the BIOS I have 3 choices: "NATIVE IDE" or "AHCI" or "RAID". There is 4gb of ram on the board. If I set the BIOS for "NATIVE IDE", then I can boot DOS with himem.sys (with the numhandles setting) and smartdrv is happy. But I want to install XP with the SATA interface already set to "SATA" (which I guess is AHCI), but with that setting DOS craps out when himem.sys is loaded: Loading Operating System ================== The following file is missing or corrupted: c:\dos\emm386.exe there is an error in your config.sys file on line 4 The following file is missing or corrupted: Command.com Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g. C:\windows\command.com) C> ================= If instead I boot DOS with himem.sys from a floppy, it works, but I get strange and different results when I try to access the C drive. Substituting himemx.exe for himem.sys gives same behavior. A plain dos boot without himem.sys, either from the hard drive or floppy, works fine and hard drive seems fully accessible in AHCI mode - it's only when I try to have DOS load himem.sys that drive access is screwed up in AHCI mode. Bringing system ram down to 2gb doesn't help. In NATIVE IDE mode there is no problem with himem.sys. Ok, so instead of trying to install XP from CD-copy on the drive after booting DOS, I boot from actual CD instead. BIOS is set to AHCI. Destination for install is the FAT32 partition. I get the "press f6" thing to supply SATA driver from floppy, and I give it the floppy, select the x86 driver and continue, get the EULA and press f8, I think there is 1 reboot, it continues, then there is one more reboot which ends the "DOS" portion of the install. It's at this point that it just simply keeps rebooting. Ok, fine. Go back to bios, set the drive for NATIVE IDE. Boot the drive into DOS with himem and smartdrv, delete all the garbage that the XP install left behind, perform a "sys c:" command from the floppy just to be sure, restart XP install from hard drive image, do all this twice (once where I press F6 and give XP the SATA drive, another time where I bypass this step), and I do this a third time (install from CD). And still I get same result - system gets into reboot cycle upon transition out of DOS portion of installation. This is my first ever experience with AMD based motherboard. Motherboard was bought on ebay about 6 months ago and at the time I got it all I did to test it was throw a CPU and RAM into it and test it with memtest86 booted/loaded from floppy (it passed). What is going on here? Why does himem.sys interact negatively with the bios AHCI setting? I've never had such experience with DOS/FAT32 formatted SATA drives and SIL-based controllers set to non-IDE-mode access. Should XP install be able to work with ANY sata controller if set to IDE mode without needing F6 driver on floppy? Or is this only true with older hardware (or intel-based chipsets)? Why can't I get past the DOS-based portion of XP install? Edit: I even tried a CD-install where I told it to perform a quick NTFS format of the unformatted drive space and install XP on the NTFS partition, and still get constant rebooting after dos-phase of the install.

A few years ago, after years of using a regular mouse, I developed forearm pain. I looked into alternatives and bought one of these: http://evoluent.com/products/vm4r/ And instantly the pain went away. Bought a second one (one for home, one for office). Both office and home computers run win-98se, and the mouse is fully compatible.

My win98se system is currently using: RICHED32.DLL 4.00.993.4 (May 7/1998) Windows 95 Rich Text Edit Control RICHED20.DLL 5.30.23.1200 (Jan 26/2002) Rich Text Edit Control, v3.0 USP10.DLL 1.0422.3790.4695 (srv03_sp2_gdr.100416-1721) There seems to be several or many versions of RICHED20.DLL with version 5.30.23.1200. The one my system is using is 431,133 bytes. Another varient has 421,888 bytes. I have another version (5.40.11.2210) Rich Text Edit Control, v4.0 (March 19/2001) in an MS-Office directory. The riched32.dll file that my system is using seems strange - as if it's a win-98 FE version. I have version 4.00.834.839 (april 23/1999) in an archived backup of an old win-98se install which I assume is the original 98se file. It is still identified as "Windows 95 Rich Text Edit Control". The previous version of USP10.dll I was using was 1.0325.2180.1 (Feb 7/2000). My current is Sept/2012.

> There is an alternative way to browse that some may be unaware of. > Paste this into your browser: (www.textise.net) Turning the web back into usenet. Something old is new again... Funny thing - using the "textise" service doesn't look a whole lot different to me than using FF 2.0 on most websites. If you have enough host-file entries to block a lot of stuff, you can turn most web pages into mostly text. This is especially true of web pages reporting on news stories like TV and newspaper sites.

Ah - yes. It seems to need gwmetric as part of the syntax, although the documentation doesn't mention it. Seems these people also came across this situation: http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=43164 I haven't tried this yet, but this apparently works: netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection 2" gateway=192.168.1.3 gwmetric=1 If all I want to change is the gateway IP, then would this work? netsh interface ip set gateway=192.168.1.3 gwmetric=1 Bonus question: Can XP have 2 gateway IP settings, and dynamically figure out which one to use? The TCP/IP properties for win-98 has a list box for "installed gateways" and says the first one in the list is the default, but I have no idea if it really works - will it try other entries as needed from the list?

This is not necessarily XP-specific, but I am following instructions written for XP, on an XP system. Specifically, I'm following the examples on these pages: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/netsh_int_ip.mspx?mfr=true https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/bb490943.aspx such as trying this: netsh interface ip>set address local static 192.168.2.123 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.2 or this: netsh interface ip>set address name="Local Area Connection 4" source=static addr=192.168.2.123 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.2.2 and getting this response: The syntax supplied for this command is not valid. Check help for the correct syntax. All I want is a command-line function to set the gateway IPv4 address. What is the correct syntax to do this from a command prompt?

I find that neither FF 2 or Opera 12.02 render MS kb pages, and haven't for a long time. For example, this page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/323207 Both Opera and FF show a few banner items across the top, but the rest of the page is blank. Opera says it loaded 18 out of 18 elements. I look at the page source code in FF, but the KB content is not present (?). Is there an alternative way (or an alternative site) where I can read KB content using either FF2 or Opera 12.02?

Yes, I've been running Kex for many years. I downloaded FF 3.6.9 portable from source forge, ran the install executable, told it to install to D root. Then I ran "FirefoxPortable.exe" from D:\FirefoxPortable. A small spash window opened showing "Firefox portable / Portable apps" and then firefox opened behind it. It was my default 2.0.0.20 version, complete with all my bookmarks, etc. I closed that, and dug a little deeper (D:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox) and ran firefox.exe located there (properties file version 1.9.2.9). Again I saw the portable-apps splash screen, and again it was my old version 2.0.0.20 that ended up running. Don't know how that happens. I have 2.0.0.20 installed in E:\Software\Firefox\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox (file version 1.8.1.20: 2008121709). Now why when I invoke the 3.6.9 version the 2.0.0.20 version ends up running - I have no idea. ?

Can newer security protocols (such as TLS 1.1) be added to FF 2.0.0.20? Even if by way of hack? If so - where are step-by-step instructions?

> Apparently you've never had a system with an Intel ICH5 > or later chipset. While they may be available for some > third-party SATA controller chips, drivers are NOT > available for most chipset-integrated SATA controllers. I do believe that most motherboards made with Intel 800-series chipsets (at least 84x, 86x and 87x) have ICH5 chipsets (sometimes ICH5r) and have full win-9x/me driver support. For example, this board: i865PEa-7ILFR http://global.aopen.com/products_detail.aspx?auno=943 claims ICH5r, and points to Intel chipset driver v5.1.1.1002. ftp://asftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/driver/mb/intel/inf/intel_chipset_v5.1.1.1002.zip Unpacking that and it does contain 9x/me files (various ICH5 cat files). Besides, I seem to recall that ICH5/ICH5r implimentation of SATA controller was buggy or faulty in some way. Also there are many socket 478 and 775 motherboards with Via chipsets with onboard sata controllers with full 9x/me driver support. > > No system in daily use, regardless what OS it's running, > > should be using 40 or 80 gb IDE drives > > I depend on them every day. Have for the past 10 years. > No signs of any trouble, and no plans to change either. I have a few win-98 systems that have 80 gb drives and are in daily use. And I know the drives are at or have exceed their MTBF and could fail at any time. I still stand by my advice I would give to anyone in a similar situation - that yes, the 40 and 80 (particularly 80 gb WD) drives are very reliable, but they will not last forever and the only way to know their true health is to look at their SMART data every once in a while. And I certainly wouldn't build a new win-98 system or rebuild an existing one using an IDE drive today. I'd rapidly run out of storage space if I did, and I imagine so would most people.

> So if you've got the parts around, try it. > If not, I wouldn't spend the money on a "might" be a little faster solution. The point of exploring the use of SATA-1 (1.5 gb/sec) controllers with win-98 has nothing to do with disk-transfer performance. The use of SATA-1 controllers allows win-98 systems to utilize cheap high-capacity hard drives in the range of 160 gb to 2TB that have been available starting 10 years ago. More importantly, SATA-1 controllers always have (in my experience) full 32-bit driver support for win-98, which eliminates the 137gb problem that applies to most situtations using IDE (PATA) drives. No system in daily use, regardless what OS it's running, should be using 40 or 80 gb IDE drives because those drives were made many years ago (10 or more years ago in most cases) and the reliability of those drives today will be questionable. When upgrading existing systems or building new ones, IDE drives are no longer an option for most people anyways.

I can confirm that setting the audio playback (speakers) and recording (microphone) to "emulation" by adjusting the hardware acceleration slider to "None" does allow Skype to function (ie - make calls without giving "Problem with playback device" error). In this mode, the quality of the other party's audio (as heard on my speakers) is horrible (stuttering) combined with an echo (things are heard twice). Conversely, my audio (as picked up by my microphone and heard by the other party) sounds fine.

Searching a few drives I have handy at the moment for CTL3D32.dll versions: (1) 2.31.000 26,624 bytes Jan 26/1998 (2) 2.26.000 26,112 bytes Nov 6/1997 (3) 2.31.000 45,056 bytes April 23/1999 (4) 2.31.000 27,136 bytes July 13/1995 (5) 2.31.000 45,056 bytes June 8/2000 (1) is what my win-98 system is currently using (2) located in a Coreldraw 9 program directory (3) located in an archived copy of a win-98 installation from another computer (4) located in a \temp\_istmp0.dir directory of another archived copy of a win-98 installation (5) located in a folder containing unpacked files from Win-ME cd (3) and (5) are same size, but not binary identical. A directory containing an unpacked win-98 CD is not handy at the moment, so I don't know what version of CTL3D32.dll is there. Based on file date, this computer seems to be using a version from win-98 FE? Nothing has changed as far as being able to use skype 3.8.0.188 on this system (see my earlier posts in this thread). It doesn't see or recognize audio components, and I can't change my skype user image or icon picture (see post #11 in this thread). Would CTL3D32.DLL play a role in BOTH of these problems?